Call me a bleeding heart liberal but I'm not sure I share the general appetite for dishing out a life ban to an 18 year old.

Having said which, the question of whether he is in fact 18 is itself open to some doubt.

You do have a point. Despite the fury of my previous post, one suspects that this runs deeper than just Aamer and Asif behaving like plonkers. Who knows what type of external pressure and coercion they were under; this is a systematic failure of the PCB.

I do feel sorry for the ECB here. They've been fantastic to Pakistan this summer, and this is how we repay them! Arrgh